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Artist Research: Hilla and Bernd Becher

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Gas Holders 1966-93

Blast Furnaces 1969-95

Pitheads 1974

Water Towers 1988

Winding Towers 1965-98

These works by the married duo of Bernd and Hilla Becher, both German photographers, are synonymous with the majority of the couples work. They like to photograph industrial areas, often specific pieces of industrial architecture such as pitheads, cooling towers, and oil refineries. An interesting working style is a key characteristic of their projects, photographing the same subject, in the same conditions, in an identical set-up to produce a series of images that present their object of focus free from any other influence in the scene.

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